no news is bad news in greece media workers walk out accusing the government of targeting journalists who are trying to bring the powerful into account. iraq obama and mitt romney refit their campaign buses to be disaster relief burns but are accused of jumping on the super storm bandwagon for their own election again. and her majesty's secret service is accused of covert tactics and racial profiling and taking british citizens off the radar under the war on terror about our.

own thank you for joining our t. with me karen tara well great journalists have walked out on their jobs angry and what they see as government censorship and changes to labor laws as follows the suspension of two t.v. presenters after they criticized the interior minister on air and denounced police for beating up activists detained during protests for more on the events in greece let's now talk to greek journalist and r.t. contributor. thank you so much for joining us now can you tell us more about why journalists have resorted to this action. while journalists have called the twenty four hour worst strike and this is the beginning of twenty four hour all these strikes the protests because the government has decided to merge there at the top which is media as media front to murder. with the national

organization for health care provision if this means that what the journalists the money the journalists the money that media people have paid all these years. are destroyed and they become part of this national organization which is not at this moment doesn't work effectively now that mr stern our us finance minister have said that at the app which is only journalists funds will not become part of this national organization however i know many good journalists union believe that in a few days maybe even a few months and even a tory out will have the same lot at that i mean yes so the whole media sector will be destroyed and this is the reason why media why media people have called twenty four hour old strikes now really the media has accused the government of censoring

what is their relationship like right now at the moment. well at the moment the relation is a little bit strange a little bit they'll use that tension between the relationship between government and journalists a let couple days ago we saw that mr vaxevanis who is a popular journalist investigative journalist in greece was arrested because he was keep bubblies the. guard least the way to cold with more than two thousand. people who have money in debt was it's a nice wheeze bank this least it is sad that it was the event to this then finance minister mr up on sunday no but he never gave it gave. the government to the responsible to their responsibility people to investigate what's going on so mr burke. these young that believe and decide these. seats and he was i

raised it for that reason so government was blamed for the same sort of see because it is not possible. information for example and not been probably many journalists even simple people say that means their proposals that the movie then finds means there's to be are wasted and not these journalist who revealed the truth now the greek fire finance minister has also filed an amendment that could undermine health care and pension schemes for media workers how are discussions going over the new austerity budget which is being debated in the parliament very briefly. but well at this moment. presents a new draft is it for twenty thirty we have the information that until now the bill on privatisation is passed but we don't doubt the exact the exact numbers of votes and this is very important because he sees that the first major grass test for the

government and now the government will have more power to privatized public utilities week after you were at school to remind that to get their day means there's some are off the greek prime i mean is there told that the negotiations are over the bill soon be voted otherwise we'll have details in greece greek journalist n r t contributor. thank you. for more on this now let's speak to both of you know this sort that is who is a sociologist from the university of a-g. and actually we will be talking to him in just a few moments now as we turn to our attention to homeless without power transport and a coastal disaster zone millions in the northeastern u.s. are now counting the cost of the deadly storm even barack obama and mitt romney swapped campaigning to pitch in with the relief efforts officially their electioneering was suspended but lucic off and off now reports that's not how it looked to some. this was the tober surprise. and i think.

hurricane sandy crashing on shore i've never seen anything like this i'm at a loss for words to describe what the storm could do but there is no loss for words on the campaign trail and on the eastern coast of our nation a lot of people are enduring some very difficult times the storm that wreaked havoc on america's east coast is wreaking confusion in the last critical days of a tight race for president so how do you run for office about seeming insensitive to a national tragedy the candidates are certainly doing all they can to look like they aren't trying to score political points but their actions tell a different story president barack obama canceled his election rallies and returned to washington to focus on the storm the election will take care of itself next week leaving vice president biden to campaign on his behalf. one of the perks of running for president while occupying the white house is being able to make high profile

visits like this one america's whether we are standing behind you and we're going to do everything we can to help you get back on your feet it means coming across as a president on the job which certainly helps when it's a job you're reapplying for the president been in close contact with fema. and all the agencies of course obama is the president was his advisor say means he needs to focus on the crisis at hand but in terms of how it affects the election i don't think anybody really knows obviously we want unfettered access to the polls but it's a choice that doesn't sit well with some political opponents you'll notice he's canceling his trips over the hurricane he did not cancel his trips over benghazi. and then those republican presidential contender mitt romney so far he stopped sending fund raising e-mail isn't affected states he used his campaign bus for relief efforts and put up a blog with weather related advice he's also scrap. schedule campaign events only

it seems there are some fine print involved this may look like romney's campaigning in ohio a key swing state but his advisors say that's not the case the so-called victory rally was canceled out of sensitivity. instead of the campaign insists this is a hurricane relief event canned goods came hand in hand with anti obama t. shirts there was music and theme songs and those attending the supposedly nonpartisan event were treated to a video about romney getting america stronger that's what american presidents to do . asked by a reporter whether this blurred the line between storm relief and politics romney's top strategist replied i agree i don't know how it happened people over politics or politics over people it certainly difficult to tell that we may be impossible to completely stop campaigning in the middle of a closely contested race but then why make the pretense of doing so it seems that both candidates could use a little bit of this age old advice say what you mean mean what you say and do what

you say you'll do lucy caffein of r t moscow. and you can head to our tea dot com for the latest updates on what's happening in the areas affected by superstorm sandy as well as the election also next monday on the eve of that crucial vote will bring you another live debate between the alternative third party candidate choices for the white house. are we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's get back to something the president i agree on in there do you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wonder who to vote for whatever romney and obama agree and so many things remember you do have other options come november sixth tune in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on r.g.p. . back now to our developing story in greece where journalists have walked out on their jobs with claims of government censorship

let's now be joined by up on the saudi to see is it sociologist from the university of there jim thank you so much for joining us now what do you think the journalists can achieve with this sort of protest action. i think at least they bring forward the major problem facing society that is we have an attack on the trade the most price. the closest election on is was arrested for a publishing was a moral obligation to publish and that is the so-called let god least a list of people who have probably come into a lot of. evasion through the funding money to swiss banks it was his obligation to publish it and it was also it's something to the come unglued on the contrary the greek government worst critic governments consecutively i'm not only refuse to actually investigate these least bad at their house that they have their doctors

are very suspicious of the church this least was in the hands of politicians for at least i think one year assume you know how many used with people who have committed perhaps tax fraud and evasion i'm going to politicians are facing elections by abba everyone can think i can make that connection what do you do with such a list so instead of bringing it forward instead of investigating they were just sitting on it. a daily sconce she brings it to the public knowledge which i think is that it is in the best traditions journalism and serving the public which i said yes i listed for. breaking up the law in terms of sensitive press in those days i would just not present on the data this isn't names of people who have sent money abroad which is a serious issue in a country facing a major economic crisis at the same time i with respect to where respected opinion presenters up to the national television were taking off the air what taking off in

the air simply because they criticised. the minister of interior of interest and justice so this is a very big problem it where's the freedom of press turfing guess in some. sign the date strike by journalists. because if you combine government attacks and the fact that most major media outlets in greece are run by big corporations you have a problem in world concerns information in greece and i think also think that is that it is a necessary reaction and resistance larry or tory terry and dan from the part of the government mr saltus there's also i want to add to that a journalist on trial for publishing the names of two thousand greek citizens who have aroused suspicion of possible tax evasion over their swiss bank accounts do you think that this is just a case of perhaps shooting the messenger no i think there's room to create. a set an atmosphere that there must be things that should not be made public that.

journalists or especially investigative journalist said match plays a role that is breaking things forward breaking things the republic not it's that's a problem do you think it's fair to leave people without information at a time like this. well it's. as i already told you it's this it's a very authoritarian. judge telling the press freedom is one of the worst things to have in a country especially in a country where what we most need is male it's knowledge information and an open debate on identity if you don't have an open debate on alternative to the current crisis then you simply have to follow what they were told this is are being dictated what was bad the so called choice all right joining us from athens with inside analysis by this i think is a sociologist from the university of adrian thank you so much. britain's revoked

a man citizenship for refusing to sponsor fellow muslims in a few minutes we investigate why the u.k. says lama community fears the war on terror is being used as an excuse for racial profiling and harassment. and pro reform protesters divide the ban on rallies in bahrain human rights groups closely watching how the authorities react details on that after the break. invented by the famed soviet orthopedic of really bizarre from the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up for a day or for stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life about a third of patients admitted to the was out of center nowadays seeking series

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one sixty seven or one sixty eight in so eight centimeters would have brought me right to average for women height isn't so important girl can be sure it's not a big deal i think your guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. welcome back you're watching our team a lot for moscow with me karen tara but for years british intelligence has been

working to safeguard national security against threats such as terrorism and espionage but the secretive nature of their work sometimes gives rise to suspicion of extreme tact targeting innocent people are to spy boycott now reports on one claim that intelligence agents have resorted to persecute rather than protect. somali born mahdi hashi had grown up in the u.k. from the age of five he was a british citizen until this summer when the twenty three year old went missing and his family found out that the home office had stripped him of his passport for allegedly being involved in islamic extremism his parents are distraught they say that mahdi is an innocent victim of a british intelligence plot or because he refused to work for m i five all i can see is that he's a muslim and believes and he's a practicing muslim but being a muslim is not being an islamist. that's what that's all why he's being victimized

this is the quiet north london community center where mehdi hashi worked back in two thousand and nine it was then that he and four of his muslim colleagues say that they were approached and harassed separately by security agents it's claimed that m i five threatened to label them islamic extremists if they refused to become informants for british intelligence campaign is raising awareness for maddie's plight and said that the constants threats made by british intelligence made life so unbearable that he left the u.k. they were trying to offer him a job. saying that you know effectively you're an extremist we know your the only way out of this is for you to come and work for us to come and help us these will become tactics that were being used because it's all somali origin this is a purely racist profiling policy of the british government and particular security

agencies marty had been living in somalia for the past two years taking care of his grandmother and raising a son of his own but several months ago he disappeared leaving his family in despair my son is missing this summer this summer but i don't always hear if you live or died here. we are very worried all the. family the only information the hashi family have now comes from a man who contacted them to say that he'd been in prison with maddie in djibouti and he told us that he had beautiful. d.n.a. has been taken from him and then. contacted to find out that his approach does in the conduct of the british council and the british consular see that we have a good move to go on this decision probably and then the americans took him to. somewhere we don't know they don't know but they fear he's being held at a camp in djibouti and a tourist u.s.

anti terrorist base where he may be the victim of an american rendition program in which suspects are on lawfully taken to third party states to be illegally detained and tortured the hashi family want on says to simple questions like what the allegations are against maddie where he is located and whether he's even alive but when it comes to matters of intelligence they're faced with a wall of silence lawyers acting on behalf of the hashi family have received just this response from the government it has been the policy of successive governments neither to confirm or. deny speculation allegations or assertions in respect of intelligence matters this policy is maintained and accordingly the secretary of state can neither confirm nor deny the allegations made on behalf of your client. these cases a classic case where profiling and you know kind of almost ludicrous policies

within this war on terror have result in an innocent individual helpless young man afraid to be having their life ruined campaigners say that by stripping mahdi hashi of his passport the british government has effectively washed their hands of his case leaving his family to continue the search for aunt says about the now stateless son polly boyko r t london. demonstrations are reportedly continuing in the capital manama despite a ban on mass public gatherings but many authorities impose the restrictions on tuesday to try and halt the ongoing protests against the family they claim the pro-reform rallies are a threat to national unity and happened cracking down on dissent tear gas and mass arrests international human rights groups have to mount up that bahrain immediately lifts the ban saying it's a complete violation of the right to freedom of expression and assembly bahraini

opposition member. says the government is fueling the crisis it claims it's trying to prevent this is the top or you know to. nothing but i don't explode institutions these are the solutions taken by them to be jihadists and when they are talking about maintaining the peace and stability are. more than one hundred. dollars the people of this. month's. worth of their political and. dare ours to block this if there is a spike be a huge part of their government being bought out that it just looked a little thirteen exploding having to ship itself. is that they are just a few doing a lot and worse than buying because what they're going to do with it is that they will see what they did they were. and was told what are you.

going to from going outside of their homes this is not going and going and going to say. this is going to make things law if somebody from death that is very you know not to will go on to the good to go no hero but who. you know any condition we need more from their community and this will bring about any . this is. turkey's prime ministers in berlin gotten angry response from thousands who had gathered in the german capital demonstrators who are mainly syrians living in germany accused onkar of war mongering my supporting rebels and with the recent cross border shelling and grounding of syrian pound planes our prime minister out of the one and chancellor merkel try to see eye to eye on syria

what form in their talks is turkey's drawn out e.u. membership application patience is running out giving a ten year deadline to let it joy for turkey will go elsewhere one german m.p. told us that there is a fine line between keeping turkey on side but keeping it at arm's length. the german capital has a huge interest in turkey as a market and geopolitical. in the middle east to do with. interventionist policy the human rights situation. is terrible there are over one hundred journalists in prison in turkey over ten thousand political prisoners and therefore the turkish government coming to europe and talking about integration and human rights but not defending human rights in turkey and the turkish government they are making escalation politics to walk to war

against syria educating al-qaeda militants there educating the free syrian army soldiers in turkey and they are passing them weapons turkey is a nato member state and turkey is not acting without a say or. with washington and berlin backing such an aggressive. foreign policy of turkey. time for business now and is there a line at the end of the tunnel and the billionaires panel of a russian nickel dimitry well there seems to be a light at the other side of the because apparently the shareholders are now reportedly in negotiations to form a new shareholder agreement look at that russian billionaires allegedly pascoe invertible but then they own around a quarter of the company each for years they've been arguing over dividends management of the firm and other issues and now common sense daily newspaper says

they want to come up in the with a new agreement as a result but i knew it could be buying out additional shares in the company or that if asked i could invite a new independent head to the company with the share was mine of one of the richest metals taken as a likely candidate. right british conglomerate virgin and russia's nano or gratian ros nano will now collectively invest into energy to do this they've created a mutual fund worth hundreds of millions of dollars virgins president richard branson told us that up to a third of a billion will be used in energy efficient enterprises and indeed also richard branson's virgin corporation lost the battle to start flights from london to moscow to easy jet was very upset an exclusive interview told us what he thought about that but all that you can find tomorrow in a new form of business at around six thirty pm london time let's now move over to the markets so what we have right now in the russian markets is a indeed

a pretty positive session and we're waiting for the u.s. markets to finally open this week up to two days of a standstill because of hurricane sandy and the obvious my six now regaining all within one percent because of rebounding world prices around eighty six dollars a barrel now when it comes to the ruble oil prices are not really helping him there but the euro is dollar rate still climbing up just above one point three right now every all eyes are focused on greece will again and again. new tranche of a bailout and on the european markets also a similar story because we're awaiting a opening of the u.s. markets we're seeing the dax move up point six percent while london is undecided so i have time for this hour coming up next is our tease exclusive interview with the president of nicaragua after a few minutes. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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